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Ethics

Robbins, “Beyond the suffering subject”

Robbins, Joel. 2013. Beyond the suffering subject: toward an anthropology of the good. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(3): …

August 12, 2013 ndca-admin

Faubion, James D. 2011. An Anthropology of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Reviewed by Anna Strhan (University of Kent). How do people engage with questions about the good and how we ought to live in everyday social encounters? What role do particular moral logics play in the constitution of human subjects, and how, when and where does the formation of ethical subjectivities happen?

July 19, 2013 ndca-admin

Biehl, “The Right to a Nonprojected Future”

Biehl, João. 2013. The Right to a Nonprojected Future. Practical Matters 6:1-9 Excerpt: “There is a wonderful invitational quality to Christian Scharen and …

April 30, 2013 ndca-admin

Zigon, “On Love”

Zigon, Jarrett. 2013. On Love: Remaking Moral Subjectivity in Post-rehabilitation Russia. American Ethnologist 40(1):201-215. Abstract: Love, I argue, is a …

February 7, 2013 ndca-admin

O’Neill, “The Soul of Security”

O’Neill, Kevin Lewis. 2012. The Soul of Security: Christianity, Corporatism, and Control in Postwar Guatemala. Social Text 30(2):21-42. Abstract: Amid …

November 24, 2012 ndca-admin

Etter, “‘Women With No One’: Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter”

Etter, Connie, (2012) “”Women With No One”: Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter.” Anthropology – Dissertations. Syracuse …

August 27, 2012 ndca-admin

Tocheva, “Crafting Ethics”

Tocheva, Detelina. 2011. Crafting Ethics: The Dilemma of Almsgiving in Russian Orthodox Churches. Anthropological Quarterly 84(4): 1011-1034. Abstract: With the …

November 22, 2011 ndca-admin

Faubion, “An Anthropology of Ethics”

Faubion, James D. (2011) An Anthropology of Ethics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Publisher’s Description: Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel …

October 6, 2011 ndca-admin

Elisha, “Moral Ambition”

Elisha, Omri (2011) Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches, Berkeley: University of California Press Publisher’s Description: In this evocative ethnography, …

October 5, 2011 ndca-admin

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